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Yep.

A major problem that people don't understand with college is that it is far more willing to let you fail compared to high school. A lot of young adults aren't used to dealing in a environment that doesn't provide immediate negative feedback on failure or non-performance. They hit one hiccup, can't come back from it, then spiral out until they flunk out.

This seems pretty unfair. I definitely remember students going to office hours, attending study groups, working with tutors.

I feel this is how half of the classes I was in went.

Let's explain to Donna why 2 + 2 = 4 even though its a pre-req. The content of the test won't be easier. I just won't cover the new material. I'll waste all my time on Donna who will end up not understanding it either way.

Or my 6th grade math teacher.

A guy I knew in school became a college professor. He'd absolutely call his students stupid. A friend of mine sent me a link to his "Rate my Professor" page and apparently his class is mostly full of people failing miserably. A load of Quality=1 and Difficulty=5 and complaints about how he makes fun of students who don't know things. The only good thing people had to say was that he had clear grading criteria.

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Well yeah, his teacher yelled at him in meme class so he never learned how to meme.

Iranians and Slavs are both Indo-European, which is almost what I wrote. And literally after googling ElectroBoom's accent/nationality

It starts to really sink in after about 100 hours lol

My first job out of college, I worked with a lot of Indian people. It was like I was uniquely prepared to work there.

I don't think they are losing a lot of sales since 2022.

My queen coronabeth tridentarius would like a word

That's true. And I was exaggerating for effect. But the fact remains that you can't have it both ways.

Either you're doing everything that can be done, and nothing can help these little shits to learn OR you need more money, and that would fix the problem.

Pick one of those messages. Not both. Both things can't be true.

EDIT: Please do pick the "we need more money" message. It's actionable, at least. I'm all for raising taxes on the top 25 percent wealthy motherfuckers and putting a lot of that dough into education and directly into teachers' salaries.

We should at least try that. See if it works. The other message is just "the kids are dumb. The parents are bad. We're all screwed. Always kiss teachers' asses, though, whenever you see them."

many teachers pay for the supplies they need with their own money

They just shouldn't do that. It should be actually illegal to do that. I really mean that.

Imagine if this shit was going on, in the construction industry. Imagine if we got into a situation, where the people who hire construction contractors refused to pay for enough building materials, and then the contractors refused to pay for those materials, and then the actual construction workers started bringing in steel and concrete, from home.

That would be BEYOND STUPID. Nobody would do that. But if they DID ever do that, it would completely destroy the economy, and basically make sure that no buildings could ever be built or repaired.

Rather than telling the people at large that they need their asses kissed, the response should be to tell the districts: "well, I ran out of supplies, so I couldn't teach." If that functionally means a strike, then so be it. It is ethically problematic, because of the actual futures of the actual kids involved...but it should have been dealt with sharply and directly, all along.

Instead, teachers are coddling governments and middle managers by taking the burden onto themselves. I know it's easier said than done, but they need to start saying "no," rather than saying "please help me, out of the kindness of your hearts."